Music and Theatre
Music and Theatre

Author: Nigel Fortune

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-02-17

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780521619288

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This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.

New Grove Book of Operas
New Grove Book of Operas

Author: Stanley Sadie

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 0195309073

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The world's defiinitive single volume of opera reference including: full plot synopses, cast lists, singers, composers, literary and social history, recordings, and much more. Covers over 250 operas performed over the last quarter-century, additional works selected for interest, merit, or historical significance, 64 pages of color plates, 100 black-and-white photographs, fully cross-referenced with indexes and a glossary.